Community Corner
🌱 VP Visit + City Councilor Resigns + School Board Member Shares
The quickest way to get caught up on the most important things happening today in Durham.
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Happy World Wildlife Day Durham!
First, today's weather:
Partly sunny and very warm. High: 75 Low: 36.
Here are the top five stories in Durham today:
- Watch Vice President Kamala Harris speak at Durham Technical Community College here. Vice President Harris was joined by Governor Roy Cooper, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, and more while promoting union jobs and organized labor and speaking to the administration's first year in office. (WCNC)
- Charlie Reece will officially resign next week from his position as a city councilor. The city council will have 60 days to appoint a successor from a pool of applicants. Reece was first elected as an at-large council member in 2015, and is resigning in order to relocate for his wife's work. In a statement last week Reece said "Durham will always be our home." (INDY Week)
- Fred Astaire's Dance Studio hosted a masterclass to help raise money for a family in Ukraine. Twelve of the studios instructors were born in Ukraine and Ruslan Golovashchenko flew in from Kyiv to visit the studio and teach, to learn of the escalating crisis. Originally set to fly back on Monday, Golovashchenko has spent most of his time on the phone with his wife tying to help her and their two children drive from Kyiv to the Polish border. Tickets for the masterclass were $50 and some people gave additional donations to help his family escape. (CBS17)
- Destiny Alexander has created a self-funded safe space for teens to go after school. The program allows teens to come Monday through Friday from 2:00pm-8:00pm to learn marketable skills and turn the knowledge into profit. The former bank, is now home to P.O.O.F., a double acronym: Planning Our Own Funeral/Planning Our Own Future. (abc11)
- While many have questioned why Durham is behind the pack in masking policies, one school board member shared her grief and lessons from her fathers COVID death. Natalie Beyer shared her grief as colleagues considered lifting mask mandates, saying, "we need to do everything we can to protect our children, and each other and our community." (WRAL)
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Today in Durham:
- Songstories Live at Boxyard RTP (5:30pm-7:30pm)
- International Night at Justin's (6:00pm-1:00am)
- Woolly's Big Blues Jam at The House Restaurant (6:30pm-10:00pm)
- Trivia: Moon Dog Meadery (6:00pm), Durty Bull (7:00pm-9:00pm), The Oak House (7:00pm-9:00pm)
- Bailemos! Latin Thursday Party at Namu (9:00pm-12:00am)
From my notebook:
- It's World Wildlife Day, which makes today an awesome day to celebrate the wildlife that calls North Carolina home with NC Wildlife.
- With Russian vodka leaving shelves in N.C., check out these N.C. based alternatives, including Durham's own Bedlam Vodka and Durham Distillery. (Charlotte Observer: Possible Paywalled Content)
- The Durham Police Department bids a farewell to K9 Officer Daro who is retiring after serving with the DPD since 2016. (Durham Police Department Facebook)
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— CJ Fullford